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Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years.

Antonio Porchia

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Antonio Porchia
Age: 81 †
Born: 1886
Born: November 25
Died: 1968
Died: November 6
Aphorist
Poet
Writer
Funny
Inspirational
Made
Years
Life
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Hundred
Motivational
Minutes

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My bits of time play with eternity.
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When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself.
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I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.
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If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.
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Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.
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You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.
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If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.
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You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you.
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The little things are what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
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Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display, and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing would exist.
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You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
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Humanity does not know where to go because no one is waiting for it: not even God.
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Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.
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When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel.
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